Vladimir vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Vladimir
based on 3,654 Vladimir vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Bard
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Vladimir vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Vladimir versus Bard matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between these two champions. As an example, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vladimir often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vladimir and Bard
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vladimir into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vladimir also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vladimir is a bad counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vladimir against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir on average racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Vladimir versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Shadowflame. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Bard as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vladimir vs Bard LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Vladimir are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.